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bootparam.7: Remove crufty "General non-device-specific boot arguments" options
[Part of a general change to remove cruft from this page.] Much of the detail on hardware specifics in this page dates from the 20th century. (The last major update to this page was in man-pages-1.14!) It's hugely out of date now (many of these devices disappeared from the kernel years ago.) Here, we remove some ancient x86 options. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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\&'/tftpboot/'.
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This root name is used in case of a net boot.
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.TP
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.B "'no387'"
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(Only when
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.B CONFIG_BUGi386
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is defined.)
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Some i387 coprocessor chips have bugs that show up when used in 32 bit
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protected mode.
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For example, some of the early ULSI-387 chips would
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cause solid lockups while performing floating-point calculations.
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Using the 'no387' boot argument causes Linux to ignore the maths
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coprocessor even if you have one.
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Of course you must then have your
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kernel compiled with math emulation support!
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.TP
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.B "'no-hlt'"
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(Only when
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.B CONFIG_BUGi386
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is defined.)
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Some of the early i486DX-100 chips have a problem with the 'hlt'
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instruction, in that they can't reliably return to operating mode
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after this instruction is used.
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Using the 'no-hlt' instruction tells
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Linux to just run an infinite loop when there is nothing else to do,
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and to not halt the CPU.
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This allows people with these broken chips
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to use Linux.
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.B "'root=...'"
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This argument tells the kernel what device is to be used as the root
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filesystem while booting.
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